In this emotionally resonant episode of 'Willing To Learn,' host Dr. Ashley D. Domínguez delves deep with Dr. Dawn Demps, exploring her groundbreaking Ph.D. work that employs autoethnography to scrutinize racial disparities in education. Dr. Demps shares her personal journey, revealing how her son's experiences not only spurred her academic investigations but also led her to embrace 'Homeschooling as Marronage' as a form of resistance and liberation. This act of educational marronage forms a critical backdrop to her quest to 'interrupt the school to prison pipeline,' which culminated in her first solo publication in the Journal of Negro Education. The conversation traverses the terrains of Black Feminisms and Critical Race Theory, offering an incisive look at the intimate intersections between personal narratives, systemic racial disparities, and scholarly advocacy.

Books and Links:

• Dr. Dawn Demps Website
• All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by Carol B Stack
• Any book by Pedro Noguera
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Scienceby  Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia López Juárez, Mirian A. Mijangos García, Daniel M. Goldstein
• Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange
• Race Mentoring website: https://www.infoagepub.com/products/RACE-Mentoring-Through-Social-Media

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